Field-Marshal Haig, in his despatch issued yesterday afternoon, stated:—"There has been no further counterattack south of Ypres, but the enemy artillery is active ...
Article : 994 wordsBoth Houses of the Federal Parliament will meet at half-past 10 on Thursday morning, when the session will be opened by Sir Edmund Barton and Mr. Justice ...
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Article : 429 wordsMr. D. F. Houston (Secretary for Agriculture) advocates the insertion in the Food Control Bill of a clause to prevent the dumping of food in America. He says ...
Article : 133 wordsThe 309th casualty list was released by the Censor yesterday, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
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Article : 719 wordsPickets posted by the Seamen's and Firemen's Union discovered last night Messrs. Ramsay Macdonald and Jowett embarking of a train, and they promptly telegraphed ...
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Article : 533 wordsMr. and Mrs. G. H. Williams, of Hillgrove, Kulyaling, have been informed by the Red Cross and Military authorities that their eldest son, Private E. B. ...
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Article : 60 wordsThree German officers presented themselves at the Dvinsk front yesterday and stated that they were acting on Von Hindenburg's behalf. They offered to make a ...
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Article : 85 wordsAdvices from Athens state that Italian cavalry have occupied Janina, a town in Greece about 30 miles from the Albanian border. The Greek authorities offered no ...
Article : 46 wordsTo-day the Germans have turned on to our advanced troops all the guns which they withdrew yesterday. They searched the trenches methodically with heavy ...
Article : 381 wordsMr. Justice Powers to-day intimated in the Arbitration Court that he will give his award in the matter of the engine drivers' claims, recently heard, on ...
Article : 808 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at Philadelphia, said that America had utterly failed to prepare for war, and was now endeavouring with infinite confusion, hurry ...
Article : 113 wordsThe German mark and the Austrian krone have reached new low records at Berne, Amsterdan, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. ...
Article : 27 wordsBaron Kenjiro Den (Minister of Communications) states that Japan is willing to build ships for the Allies, but does not posses the material. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe question of establishing the shipbuilding industry in Australia was considered at length by the Federal Cabinet to-day. The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) ...
Article : 197 wordsThe "Evening Telegram" states that three arrests have been made as the result of the discovery of a wireless plant on the roof of a Broadway theatre. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe committee of the 51st Battalion Trench Comforts Fund will hold a gift afternoon in the recruiting rooms, Market-street, Fremantle, on Thursday, June 14, ...
Article : 188 wordsWidespread sorrow was felt at the news of the death on Sunday of Mr. Walter Hughes Mead, inspector for Western Australia of the Union Bank, in his 53rd ...
Article : 493 wordsThe "World's" Washington correspondent says that America will not stop with General Pershing's division, but further troops will be sent to Europe much sooner ...
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Article : 35 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that the latest recennaissance of Ostead shows that there has been a removal of all the large shipping, and the two destroyers which ...
Article : 56 wordsThe report that Colonel Winston Churchill has been appointed President of the Air Board, vice Lord Cowdray, resigned, has not been confirmed. The ...
Article : 51 wordsAt a special meeting of the Australian Clerks' Association it was decided to effect amalgamation with the Federated Clerks' Union of Australia, under the title ...
Article : 79 wordsIt is asserted that as a result of air reconnaissances 72 German batteries were silenced on Thursday. Correspondents state that one of the new British weapons, called ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, telegraphing from the British headquarters in France yesterday, stated:—"There are no happier men in this happy army of the north than the ...
Article : 491 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford) stated to-day that the Government had purchased the well-known Grantham Poultry Stud Farm as a going concern for £10,000. ...
Article : 58 wordsMajor William Redmond, M.P., who sustained fatal injuries in the Messines battle, in his last letter to his wife, wrote as follows:—"Don't fret, just pray. If I ...
Article : 53 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court to-day the trial was begun of William Graham Eyles on a charge of having murdered his wife. The accused was tried and convicted on ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Hughes stated to-day that it was proposed to launch a war savings certificate campaign in the Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday evening of next week. The ...
Article : 81 wordsThe "Morning Post" correspondent at Petrograd states that there are signs of increasing discipline amongst the Russian soldiery. Distinguished regiments are drastically weeding ...
Article : 85 wordsLast evening, in conversation with a "West Australian" representative, the United Irish League executive paid the following tribute to the late Mr. William ...
Article : 410 wordsFollowing the recent announcement by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) that consideration was being given by the Commonwealth Government to the question ...
Article : 203 wordsDrink in Hospitals,—Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, speaking in Kilburn (London), and reverring to the effect of drink on soldiers, said that the British "Tommy" was not a ...
Article : 87 wordsAdvices from Vladivostock states that several American railway experts have arrived there to offer their services to Russia. They include leading experts in railway ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 12 Jun 1917, Page 5
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